Belated update on the Stitch!Now aliens
I kept putting off writing this, but I need to get to this now before I forget about it entirely.
Recently, I’ve shared a screenshot from the Chinese iOS game Stitch!Now showing a yellow whale-like alien with the number 23 in its description who we thought was supposedly X-023/Cyclo.
And a while back, there was this green amphibian-like alien with the number 15 who we believed to be X-015/Ruggles.
Unfortunately, I’m here to announce that—by word of Lilo & Stitch: The Series writer and executive producer Jess Winfield—they are not among Jumba’s experiments.
In a reply to a DeviantArt comment I left on one of @angoraram‘s DA status posts (I go by ArtJockeyKC over there), @tombola1993 told me that Bricerific43 messaged Winfield on Twitter over the aliens in this game. This is what tombola wrote to me:
“Well, apparently, right, Jess Winfield, the writer of the franchise, says that the design of the one that is supposedly 023: Cyclo isn't really one of Jumba's experiment. Bricerific43 contacted Jess Winfield via Twitter about his thoughts on this experiment and he got back to him saying that it's not one of Jumba's. Possibly because he knows how to distinguish Jumba's experiments from other aliens. Most of which have markings and round noses, but not all of them do.Maybe the company who developed the app just made up a couple of random experiment designs and guessed what they look like based on the names and numbers. Even stranger, this experiment, along with the one that is supposedly 015: Ruggles had two different colours and numbers. The number 23 in the round experiment's description also has a red counterpart numbered as 16, which is supposedly meant to be Malt and the frog experiment had a dark green and blue counterpart numbered 27, which is Plushie's number. So, each one of them could be one or the other.
It could be that they just came up with a couple of simple experiment designs and just made two different counterparts, so that it would be cheaper to reuse the same designs, rather than make new ones from scratch, which I find lazy and confusing.
However, that didn't stop me from making Pokemon fusions of the two and I had fun fusing the two.”
So again, no, these are not canonical experiments. They are just random generic alien designs made for the game and used as palette swaps.
I apologize for having worked up a desperate fanbase in my past posts relating to the game over these designs. Having more revealed experiments would be nice, but accuracy matters more than speculation.
On the plus side, at least we don’t have to worry as much about a piece of non-English Lilo & Stitch media that we will never get. Especially a free-to-play mobile game.
Since his reply to me mentioned this, if you would like to see tombola’s Pokémon-Experiment fusions, including the ones he made with the Stitch!Now aliens, you can view his gallery over here.